What Do We Need: Dollars or Scholars?

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“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” Today the topic will be speaking on is: “What do we need; Dollars or Scholars?” If you are enlightened, knowledgeable, a scholar, you can harness it into obtaining worldly wealth. Money, wealth, dollars are dependent on smart knowledge, a cult status of a scholar. It is not the other way round. I believe it is the scholars that we need but not in the traditional sense where a scholar is made simply by completing a degree programme. Sure, in the present day and age you can easily get yourself a degree to boast about. However, is it a simple degree programme or simple rote-learning that mints out scholars? A scholar is a force, a person unlike any other. He is someone who has the ability to think on his own, to solve problems, to lead the way. He may have a degree or he may not even have that. Knowledgeable, detail oriented, and innately curious, Scholars are the librarians of the Universe. They methodically collect and transcribe the genetic code of existence so nothing is ever forgotten. They record life in both its positive and negative faces, teaching us about the triumphs and failures in the world, and how we can best learn from them. There are plenty of degree holding individuals who have made it through an international college programme and yet have no idea how to think, what to do or how to do it? These days, we don’t educate ourselves. Most of us take the quickest and cheapest method to earn degrees which, we hope, will make us more marketable in the career world enabling us to earn more and the dollar is the key point. The focus is not on the learning aspect, it’s on achieving the monetary success. A scholar is a source of light that serves as a guide and it has been through scholars that many
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